Image ID: 01285

Laying of telephone wires in Colmore Row, Birmingham

Taken by Library of Birmingham

Colmore Row
Birmingham
West Midlands
England

Laying of telephone wires in Colmore Row. A gang of children watching a workman, sitting in a hole in he road.

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